Global warming data that riled doubters is confirmed

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press


WEDNESDAY, JAN 4, 2017 03:30 PM EST

SETH BORENSTEIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new independent study shows no pause in global warming, confirming a set of temperature readings adjusted by U.S. government scientists that some who reject mainstream climate science have questioned.

The adjustments, made in 2015 to take into account how ocean temperatures have been measured over the decades, riled a House committee and others who claimed the changes were made to show rising temperatures.

The new international study looked at satellite data, readings from buoys and other marine floats. Researchers found that each measurement system independently showed the same 20 years of increase in temperatures seen in the readings in question, an updated temperature analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2015.

The study is in Wednesday’s journal Science Advances.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/01/04/global-warming-data-that-riled-doubters-is-confirmed/

[Achilleaze]

1. OK, Repubs, here's your chance: you can stop lying to the American people now

Take this opportunity to put on your Big Boy Pants and admit you have been dead wrong for a long time. In doing so, you can 'claim' that you really care about America and the world, and so now in the face of indisputable evidence, you are actually going to DO THE RIGHT THING.

It could be redemptive for you Republicans. It could be. Totally revolutionary. Do the right thing.

OK, here's where I start holding my freaking breath...waiting...

[Fast Walker 52]

7. haha, good luck with that!!!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Science is just a theory. NT

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. Facts are a theory.

"Science" doesn't even rise to that level, don't ya know?

[hatrack]

3. Well, well, well . . . what a shocker!

[Snarkoleptic]

4. At some point, the last climate denying schill will no longer be able to continue the charade.

He will shrug his shoulders, cash his think-tank check, and slink off into obscurity.
By then, we'll all be screwn (if we're not already).

[japple]

11. No, he/she/it will slide back into the cosmic soup without even

cashing a paycheck, because he/she/it will have nothing to feed the family.

[Rex]

5. As if politicians know more than climate experts.

As soon as we let capitalism creep into our political system, we lost everything.

[War Horse]

6. Global warming is still a meta-threat to a lot of people

Understandably so in many cases. When you can hardly make ends meet, for example.

Perhaps a way to get some people's attention in today's heated political climate (no pun intended) is to remind them of what an exodus global warming will eventually lead to...

[GliderGuider]

10. Moar illegal messicans...

[Trust Buster]

9. Right wingers are too far invested in denial. They could be drowning in water and will never admit

that climate change is happening. We must look to the rest of the world for leadership on this issue.

[benld74]

12. They are too scared to acknowledge facts

Soon as they do
They lose everything
They know this
And refuse to give up their power

Greedy
Egotistic
Narcissistic
Power loving
Liars

[paleotn]

13. One can live fact free for only so long...

until reality smacks them upside the head. Happens all the time.